On November 16, 2017, Dr. Robert H. Grubbs gave the 72nd Remsen Award Lecture, which is hosted annually by the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society in conjunction with the JHU Chemistry Department. Dr. Grubbs is the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In 2005, Dr. Grubbs received the […]

Congratulations to Professor Sara Thoi for being selected as a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement. Scialog Fellows meet every year to discuss new strategies to enhance energy storage technology and build collaborations between young investigators in the field.

Congratulations to Paulo Zaragoza of the Goldberg Group, for his paper appearing as a communication in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, entitled “Direct Observation of Oxygen Rebound with an Iron-Hydroxide Complex.” This paper was also highlighted in a recent (October 2, 2017) issue of Chemical and Engineering News, in Concentrates […]

Congratulations to Professor Lectka, who was recently named 2017 Chemist of the Year by the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society. Professor Lectka will be honored at an event on December 13th, where he has been invited to give a presentation.

Congratulations to Ron Lankone of the Fairbrother lab, whose most recent first author publication, “Methodology for quantifying engineered nanomaterial release from diverse product matrices under outdoor weathering conditions and implications for life cycle assessment” is featured on the cover of the September issue of Environmental Science: Nano. This article was also selected by Environmental Science: Nano […]

Congratulations to the Bragg and Klausen labs, whose collaborative work “Asymmetric Charge Separation and Recombination in Symmetrically Functionalized sigma-pi Hybrid Oligosilanes” is featured on the front cover of the Dalton Transactions themed collection “Silicon Chemistry: Discoveries and Advances.”

Congratulations to Professors Greenberg and Tovar for receiving 2017 Discovery Awards! The Discovery Award is a new funding program to foster innovative, collaborative research at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Greenberg’s project, “Uncovering Poly(ADP-ribose) Biology in Non-membranous Structures” (collaborators: Professors Sua Myong and Anthony Leung), is one of only 3 Category 2 proposals selected for funding. […]

Congratulations to Professor Klausen for receiving a 2017 Catalyst Award! Thirty-four early career faculty members were selected to receive Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards, an honor that is accompanied by a $75,000 grant, mentoring opportunities, and institutional recognition.

Congratulations to Herdeline Ann Ardoña of the Tovar Lab, whose article “Kinetically Controlled Coassembly of Multichromophoric Peptide Hydrogelators and the Impacts on Energy Transport” was published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.